Word: panetta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told Mr. Nelvis that she had recently smoked her first cigar, and he offered to give her one of the President's cigars. Just then, the President came down the hallway from the Oval Office and saw Ms. Lewinsky. The President dispatched Mr. Nelvis to deliver something to Mr. Panetta...
...Ditto Clinton. But today Grant is considered an utter failure. Can Clinton avoid that fate? "He's probably going to be driving himself even more, because he will want more than ever for history not to carry this as the headline," says Clinton's former chief of staff Leon Panetta. Some of the President's options...
...notion that Clinton had to offer some more textured explanation for the growing pile of evidence was coming even from old White House hands. "He owes it to the American people to tell them," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta. "This is not one you do in an interview. This is not one you do in a press conference. This one, you have to look straight in the eye of the American people and tell them...
...prodigious energy just to keep going, hopscotching the country from event to event if only to prove that he's still the guy with his sleeves rolled up. "He's trying to bob and weave as opposed to moving forward," says former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta. Even more damaging, Clinton has been holding his political capital in reserve for the potential impeachment battles on the Hill. He can't risk the bruising negotiations it takes to pass a bill or resort to the bully pulpit to push his agenda because he must maintain cordial relations with...
...always gone against Clinton's basic nature; which instincts usually had him looking for the third way, and if that doesn't work, the fourth, fifth and sixth. At this moment of simmering scandal, it also works against Clinton's survival instincts. As his former chief of staff Leon Panetta put it, the President is feeling particularly cautious now because "he's got to maintain a good relationship with the Congress that could ultimately be his judge" if Starr ends up handing it the whole Lewinsky investigation...